Chapter 50

Xie xuanchen said that until the new year, there won't be any trouble there. Although Xie xuanchen said so, Mu Mingtang thought it was better to be careful. Since she found the inexplicable incense ball, she no longer used incense in the room, and paid close attention to daily ventilation, clothing, food, housing and transportation.

What Xie xuanchen said was right. November ended smoothly without any accident. Xie xuanchen didn't need to be on guard against someone's bad hand or bear the psychological burden of his hopeless madness this month. His body recovered very quickly. Mu Mingtang can feel that Xie xuanchen's condition is obviously better, which is the result of his pretending illness.

Seeing the Lunar New Year approaching, the atmosphere of Chinese New Year is getting stronger and stronger. Red lanterns were hung on the road, and the palace was busy buying new year's goods.

Mu Mingtang was infected by this atmosphere and unconsciously became happy. There are hundreds of servants in the palace. There's no need for her to worry about shopping. She just needs to use her mouth and order her favorite dishes. Besides, she and Xie xuanchen are the only two masters in the palace. Mu Mingtang doesn't need to entertain her mother-in-law's relatives, look at her mother-in-law's and sister-in-law's faces, and worry about money. She is in charge of all the affairs in the palace. She can make preparations according to her own preference. It's very comfortable.

After Xie xuanchen came out, he saw Mu Mingtang sitting on the second room Luohan bed, and he was cutting things with his head down. Seeing him awake, Mu Mingtang said, "you are awake at last. You also said me, I think you are the one who doesn't sleep at night and doesn't get up in the morning. I wake up so much that I can't wake you up. "

"Who said that?" Xie xuanchen sat opposite to Mu Mingtang and picked up the things on the table. "I woke up when you moved in the morning, but I didn't move."

This kind of words Mu Mingtang does not believe, still cut the window flower in the hand. Xie xuanchen looked for a while and asked, "what do you do with this?"

"The new year, of course, to cut the window." Mu Mingtang said that he had already cut one. He put down the scissors and took the finished product to Xie xuanchen like a treasure. "Do you look good?"

What Mu Mingtang cut is a fish. The scales of the fish are clear and vivid, especially the asymmetry. Xie xuanchen nodded with a smile. Suddenly, his eyes were frozen and he noticed that Mu Mingtang's hand was red.

Xie xuanchen immediately took Mu Mingtang's hand, took it up and looked at it carefully. Mu Mingtang's tiger's mouth is red because he has been holding scissors for a long time. Her hands are thin and white, and such marks are very obvious on her hands.

Xie xuanchen looked at distressed, said: "what kind of pattern do you like, let servants go out to buy it, why do you have to cut it yourself?"

"How can it be the same?" Mu Mingtang said, "the process of preparing for the new year's festival is the most anticipated one. On New Year's Eve, there's nothing unusual. What's really precious is to buy new year's goods, clean the house and cut new clothes with my family. "

Mu Mingtang said, looked up and quickly glanced at Xie xuanchen. He saw that Xie xuanchen was still kneading the red seal on her hand. He didn't seem to notice it. Then he said low and quickly, "besides, this is our first new year."

Before the age of 12, every Chinese new year was the happiest time for mu Mingtang, because only at this time, her father was no longer busy with business, and her mother would smile and take her to make clothes and buy snacks. What Mu Mingtang likes is not new clothes, but when she makes new clothes, her parents are by her side.

Later, Xiangyang City was destroyed, and her carefree boudoir career never came back. She spent the next few new years on the run. It was easy for her to escape. They settled down in Chenliu, but Grandma Zhou was tired and sick.

That new year, Mu Mingtang not only had to run around to make a living, but also had to take care of the patients. However, mother-in-law Zhou didn't make it through and left in the new year.

After that, she went to Jiang's house. It's better not to talk about the new year. In a word, this year is a year she has not seen for a long time. In peace, she is looking forward to the new year wholeheartedly.

Sitting in a warm and tall house, she doesn't have to struggle for a living or care about money. Just as she did when she was a child, she doesn't have to worry about anything, she just needs to look forward to the new year. And her side, also sitting her life-saving benefactor, young like.

She really did not have any dissatisfaction, just want to close their eyes on the white head, the middle do not experience any trouble.

Mu Mingtang thought Xie xuanchen didn't notice. In fact, how could he not.

Xie xuanchen once heard Mu Mingtang talk about exile and being adopted by the Jiang family. At that time, he thought it was not easy for the little girl. Now, he is heartbroken every word.

She must have experienced a lot of twists and turns and upheaval to look forward to the new year in this way, so she especially cherishes stability. Xie xuanchen loves Mu Mingtang. In fact, he hasn't spent the new year seriously for a long time.

As a child, he had no shortage of anything. He had a superior family background, great talent, and a gentle and beautiful mother who paid close attention to him. Xie Yi is very strict with him, but Guo Rong likes him and does not mean exaggeration and teaching. He is not short of material and love.

Xie xuanchen once took all this for granted, and his every day was happy, so he never paid attention to new year's day. Until Mrs. Yin was killed by Emperor Gong of the later Jin Dynasty, his home broke up in an instant.

Guo Rong married another man, Xie Yi helped him, and Xie xuanchen established his own house. He is busy with foreign affairs all day, and he never cares about them. The taste of the Spring Festival in the palace is very weak. Speaking of it, Xie xuanchen can't remember how long ago everyone was busy for one thing.Probably when Mrs. Yin was still alive.

Xie xuanchen sighed silently. Instead of letting go, he grasped Mu Mingtang's hand and asked, "what do you like to cut new clothes for the new year?"

"New clothes again? We just made a batch the day before yesterday. " Mu Mingtang is really a little worried. Now she can't wear all her clothes at all. The cloth in the storeroom of the palace has been piled up, and the palace will give rewards every so often.

If the emperor wants to make a face, the reward will never be bad. As soon as the emperor gives it away, the queen and the Empress Dowager are embarrassed to look at it and have to send something out. As a result, the stock will never be used up. Mu Mingtang can't even wear the cloth given by the palace, let alone Xie xuanchen, who calls people from outside to come in from time to time. He doesn't bother to look at it. Shopping is always from beginning to end.

Every day, Mu Mingtang changed his clothes, and many of them were squeezed in the wardrobe, never wearing them.

Xie xuanchen took it for granted and said, "the day before yesterday I made clothes for the lunar new year. Now I want to make new year's clothes. How can they be the same? In the afternoon, people will send in the fashionable fabrics of this month to choose Forget it, don't choose. Let them send in two of each. "

Mu Mingtang stared at the black sheep for a long time. She sighed and said, "I know you are kind-hearted, but when I was a child, when my parents took me to make clothes, I was shopping from shop to shop, but you didn't buy a car like this. I know my kindness, but I really don't have to. "

She didn't want to pick any more. She was too tired.

Then Xie xuanchen was unconvinced: "I can take you out, too. I'm afraid you're tired of going out, so it's not easy to let someone send you in if you want to go to the store. Come on, set up in the afternoon. "

"Alas..." Mu Mingtang quickly stopped him, "no need."

The servant girl should have let out a sound, but now she stops when she hears Mu Mingtang's words. They looked around and didn't know who to listen to. Xie xuanchen took Mu Mingtang's hand, pressed it firmly, and said, "listen to me, set the car."

"Yes."

Mu Mingtang saw that he wanted to lose his family, so he sighed and tried to discuss: "if you really go out, don't go to the clothing shop."

"You don't like it?"

"It's so tiring to pick a pattern. I have a headache. But we haven't bought our lights on Shangyuan Festival. Why don't we go and see them? "

Xie xuanchen doesn't matter. Anyway, he didn't bother his brain at last. He nodded happily: "OK, listen to you."

Mu Mingtang said it was troublesome, but when he knew that he was going to go out in the afternoon, he was still happily ready. In fact, since she came to the capital, she hasn't gone out several times. When she was adopted daughter of the Chiang family, she was not her own daughter. She didn't dare to ask for anything. Later, she got married and came to the palace. Because she was worried about Xie xuanchen, she never went out to visit.

She spent two years in Tokyo in vain. In fact, she hasn't seen much of Tokyo's prosperity.

This time, Xie xuanchen also wants to go out, which is totally different. Mu Mingtang doesn't have to worry about the time and the distance. He is in high spirits all morning. Xie xuanchen is glad to see her so happy, but more is to cherish.

In fact, it's his fault. He should have been with her for a long time.

King an and his concubine went out, busy the people below, and turned over their horses. Xie xuanchen was forbidden before and couldn't go out. Everyone knew it. Later, his iron chain was removed, and no one dared to mention the forbidden foot. Of course, the Emperor didn't want Xie xuanchen to run away, but who dares to say?

So now Xie xuanchen says he wants to go out, and no one dares to stop him. But they couldn't really do nothing. They quickly called in bodyguards to protect Xie xuanchen. In addition, the guard of honor, the maid of honor, the young man and the old woman all followed a lot.

Mu Mingtang and Xie xuanchen are sitting in the car. The servants behind them are numerous, and the soldiers are well equipped. They are looking at the vastness and momentum, and they are almost able to catch up with the emperor. However, these Mu Mingtang didn't care. She heard the carriage turning, slowly driving out of the palace and turning into the streets. Mu Mingtang can't restrain his curiosity any longer, so he secretly opens the curtain to see.

The shops on both sides are lined up, the banners are high and low, and the peddling is incessant. Tokyo has a population of one million people. Now it's near the end of the new year. You can imagine how busy the streets are.

Mu Mingtang was not willing to blink. As expected, he called the shop owner to the mansion. It was different from going shopping in person. Just this bustle full of smoke and fire can't be taken in class.

There are also many people performing acrobatics on the street to attract the audience to buy things at the stall. Along the way, Mu Mingtang saw a lot of them, and he could not help pulling Xie xuanchen to see them.

Xie xuanchen just looks at her and smiles gently. If Mu Mingtang sees the excited place to pull him, Xie xuanchen will also lower his head to aim at two eyes, nodding in agreement.

These are the things Xie xuanchen is used to seeing, and he doesn't think it's strange. However, after a few years, there are more and more patterns in Tokyo. Xie xuanchen really feels that he seems to be a little behind the times.

Because of Mu Mingtang, their car frame stops and stops, and there are many servant girls and boys running to both sides to buy things. The originally not wide street is blocked by them. Of course, there were complaints from pedestrians on both sides. However, when they looked up and saw the neat support in front of them and the shining saber on the bodyguard, they still did not dare to say more and walked around one after another.However, there are also many children, in the arms of their mothers, curiously staring at the gorgeous cars in the middle of the road. More young women enviously looked at the well-dressed maid moving things to the back of the car like running water. When the onlookers on the roadside saw it, they just had a rough calculation, and they were surprised.

"Which lady is shopping so lavishly?"

"The carriage is decorated with gold. It should be the family members of the marquis."

"More than that!" A well-informed person pointed to the bodyguards on both sides of the lower frame and said, "see, it's the emperor who matches the sword."

The sword is a ceremonial sword, which can only be worn by the guards. Ordinary people can't even think about the people who can make the guards serve as arch guards.

At the moment, Mu Mingtang didn't know how much reaction her trip caused outside. She bought many new things she had never seen. She contentedly put down the curtain and said, "well, we have to see the lanterns. Don't delay the business. Let's go."

The coachman was ordered to drive the carriage forward and turn into another street. However, their team is really huge. The frame of Mu Mingtang and Xie xuanchen has just turned the corner, and the large army behind them has not yet completely swung over, just bumping into the two teams head-on.

It's also a coincidence that three carriages of the powerful family appear on the same street at the same time. Tokyo has a large population and a small area. Unlike Chang'an's neat, horizontal and vertical 25 streets, Tokyo was originally smaller than Chang'an, but its population was larger than Chang'an at that time. With more and more shops built, it can be imagined that the street can only be narrower and narrower. Originally, when a carriage goes, the pedestrians on both sides can stay away from each other, but now three carriages appear together, which is not enough.

The other two teams were walking in the same direction. Although they were slow, they could still walk. However, Mu Mingtang and Xie xuanchen's carriage suddenly came across the side road, opposite them, and just happened to be blocked. At the moment, no one can go in or out.

The three families, with many servants, immediately blocked the whole street. Pedestrians on both sides were pushing hard. The coachman tried to control the fidgety horse and said to the inside, "prince, princess, there are two carriages in front of us. They have blocked the road and can't get through."

Sitting in the car, Mu Mingtang can feel how crowded it is outside. She has no idea and asks Xie xuanchen: "the road is blocked. What should I do?"

Xie xuanchen completely does not put on the heart, casually said: "simple, let them retreat to the roadside, give us way."

As soon as Xie xuanchen finished his words, a little fellow came from outside and screamed at them: "those in front, go back to the fork road, don't block our young master's way!"